The Savannah tribune. [volume] (Savannah [Ga.]) 1876-1960, 1887-03-19

on top of the ground, and built a good
| log pen over her, where the writer saw
her after about thirty years in this posi-
ton. That was nearly ten years ago.
The little house was in good state of
preservation, so was the coffin, but curl
Gus people had forced the lid off to see
the condition of the body Most of the
body had decayed, but some parts were
in natural position. Her descendants
met some two years ago and repaired the
place.
ALABAMA
Some ore land in Franklin was sold a
few days ago at $3.50 an acre.
The strike at Days Gap, Walker coun-
ty, still continues, and many miners are
leaving to hunt work elsewhere.
A little daughter of Mr.. David Powell,
of Dayton, was shot and killed few
days ago by the accidental discharge of
pistol.
A piece of gold ore about the size of a
baby's fist, found near Alexandria City,
T was recently sold in New York for 1872
A large amount of this ore has been
found in the Tallapoosa hills, and own
ers are holding their lands at a high
figure.
There is little negro boy about seven
years of age living near Uniontown, who
seems to possess a wonderful talent He
can take lump of mud from the road
side and with his hand form any animal
he ever saw, and the representation IS al
most perfect All the proportions are
good,
An old woman claiming to be of
Scotch descent, and in search of land,
visited Brewton last week. She abruptly
left her hotel, on foot, and as she did
not return, she was searched for and
found across the state line in Florida, in
a demented condition. She claimed to
have been robbed Of $25, 900 This story
was not altogether believed, but she was
seen in Brewton with large roll of
money, and when found she had lost it
all
Mr. William Atkinson, farmer living
five miles southeast of Port Deposit, had
a curiosity in the shape of a pig which
was well developed. Although dead
others of the same lot are living. The PIC
had eight we'll formed legs and feet, four
ears, two eyes, two tails and one head,
two of his ears coming out on top of the
head. Just behind it's shoulders the body
divides, and from this point to its tail
there are two distinct bodies fully deyel
oped.
TENNESSEE.
r. n. Irvine has erected a tobacco fac
tory at Dresden.
A twenty thousand dollar college is to
be built at Greenbrier.
A street railroad and water works are
to be built at Athens within one year.
A company has been formed at Chatta-
nooga to manufacture fence machines.
J.P. Ferguson, Nashville, has received
the contract to build hotel at Kingston
Springs.
A company to build railroad from the
Nashville and Florence railroad to West
Point has been chartered.
Isaac Rosenstein the Hebrew who shot
and killed Jessie Harris in Memphis, was
admitted to bail in the sum of 1000.
Parties are negotiating with Paine &
Montgomery, Dayton, for a foundry
building with view to establishing a
stove foundry.
It is said that DR.. J. F. Hicks owns
vein of solid manganese six hundred feet
wide situated on the road from Bristo!
to Elizabethton.
There are no vacant business or dwell
ling houses in Bristol. The population
of Bristol would have been five hundred
more than it IS to-day if newcomers
could have found residences.
A one hundred thousand dollar stock
company has been organized at Athens
to build a cotton factory F. B. Nc
Elwee, of the Mount Verd Cotton Mills
Athens, will be superintendent.
V. Fl. Staples, one of the jurors in the
late Goodwin case in Memphis, is on trial
in the criminal court, charged with per
iurv. He swore when being examined as
to his qualifications as a juror that he
was a householder, and afterward stated
that all his possessions in the world were
four dogs.
A shocking accident happened at the
Craighead Marble quaries Tuesday that
cost a laborer his life. The unfortunate
man, Wash Yarks, was removing some
dirt from between a large stone, and the
wall of the quarry, when the stone became
undermined so much as to cause It to
topple over and crushed the man against